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Opening Remarks | Leung Man-tao: With the New Eight Minutes, I'll Keep Reading with You to the End of the World Recommendation | Dou Wentao: I Promise Eight Minutes Will Give Us a Perfect Ten Recommendation | Chen Danqing: Erudite and Articulate, He Is the Model of a Media Professional and Scholar Recommendation | Xu Zidong: Eight Minutes Finds Unexpected Dimensions in Current Affairs Recommendation | Jiang Fangzhou: As a Reader of the Daozhang, the New Eight Minutes Is Deeply Satisfying Preview | No Fooling on April Fools' Day—the New Eight Minutes Live Preview | Only He Dares Pour Cold Water on May Fourth Patriotism Preview | The Essence of “Sexual Harassment at Universities” Is Corruption Extra Conversation | Leung Man-tao × Xu Zidong: Why Do Chinese Fans Always Call World Cup Matches “Fixed”? 01. The Vaccine Scandal: Your Life Depends on Other People's Choices 02. Reporting Sexual Harassment as Society's “Collective Cry for Help” 03. Shoplifters: True Art Helps Us Understand Life's Shades of Gray 04. What a Neighbor! Norway Offers Finland “a Mountain” for Its Birthday 05. Shoplifters Revisited: Family as a Mirror of Life at Society's Margins 06. Is “Having Children” Both a Family Matter and a Matter of State? 07. How Should We Judge an Artist's Morality and Achievement? Remembering Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul 08. Religion and Sexual Abuse: The Teacher of Your Life Has Not Yet Reached the Other Shore 09. If a “Birth Fund” Is a Bad Idea, What Policies Actually Raise Birth Rates? 10. Are Long-Haired Young Musicians Dangerous? Hear the Avant-Garde Music Leung Man-tao Loves 11. Where Is Fairness in Education? Two “Walls of Ignorance” 12. Love and Conflict in British and American Culture, Seen through Language Extra | Leung Man-tao: Of Course I Like Doraemon—Who Doesn't? 13. Palace Dramas vs. New Qing History: Did Qianlong Really Make China Stagnate? 14. Ads Everywhere: Can Television Survive without Advertising? 15. Moments Lost from Human Civilization: Museums Preserve History and Illuminate the Future 16. What Makes Attack on Titan a “Masterpiece”? 17. “Chinese Tourists” Do Not Represent “China” Extra Conversation | Li Dan vs. Leung Man-tao: Ideals Are Distant and Reality Is Exhausting—Life or Livelihood? 18. The Beetle Ends Production: Was This Adorable Car Invented by Hitler? 19. Leung Man-tao Remembers Charles Kao: Without You, I Would Not Be Here Today 20. What Turmoil Has Private Capital Endured in Chinese History? 21. How to Travel the World from Home: A Holiday Guide to Armchair Travel, Part I 22. Treat Your Own Room as a Tourist Attraction: A Holiday Guide to Armchair Travel, Part II 23. Is Student Government Like Officialdom? China's Distinctive Culture of Power Extra Conversation | Jia Zhangke's Ash Is Purest White: We Are All Innocent Casualties of Our Age 24. Was Banksy's Self-Destructing Painting a Stunt? When Subversive Art Becomes Canonical 25. From Sharing Lucky Koi to Inventing Religions 26. Have You Seen a Newspaper Reporting the Future? Countries overrun by Conspiracy Theories 27. An Obsessive Bibliophile's Strangest Reading List 28. The Beheaded President of “Peking University” 29. Halloween: Why Do Humans Believe in Ghosts? 30. Leung Man-tao's Journey through Morocco's Sad Stories 31. Leo Africanus and His Extraordinary Journey 32. You Will Always Be an Outsider: Rethinking Fieldwork 33. Today's China-U.S. Situation and the First World War a Century Ago Extra Conversation | Chen Xiaoqing: The Secrets of Middle-Aged Men's Dinner Parties 34. Does Your Brain Have Only One Gigabyte of Storage? 35. Are Hotels a Foundation of Democracy? 36. Gossip about Grand Hotels and Great Writers 37. The Art of the Referendum: Is Majority Rule the Same as Justice? 38. What Ethical Principles Does “Gene Editing” Violate? 39. Remembering Bertolucci: The Unfortunates Who Follow the Crowd in His Films 40. Natsume Sōseki's I Am a Cat: Seeing the World through a Cat's Eyes 41. Chinese Wisdom and Humanity in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 42. Why Did Russians Get into a Fight over Kant? 43. Can Technology Fix Educational Inequality? The Social Conditions behind a Screen 44. The Most Stirring Scholar Story Ever: Rescuing You at Any Cost So You Can “Turn In Your Work” 45. Fake News Exploits Patriotism: Was Napoleon's Famous Quote Invented in China? 46. Violence's Dirty Secret: Can Domestic Abuse, Child Abuse, and War Ever End? 47. A Shocking Medical Fraud: Healthcare Scams Are Not Unique to China 48. The Challenge of China's Household-Registration System: Reality Is Far More Complex than Theory 49. Don't Let Games of Capital Destroy Talent: Reviewing Long Day's Journey into Night Extra | Gao Xiaosong: Popular Music Can Have Height and Power 50. The “Mad Monk” Ikkyū and the Secularization of Japanese Buddhism 51. How the Power of Beauty Saved Paris from Destruction 52. Composed for the End of Time: Music Born in a World War II Prison Camp 53. Selling Off a National Treasure? Should Priceless Artifacts Be Loaned Abroad? 54. Is Peppa Pig Really “Gangster”? Seeing the Adult World through Children's Eyes 55. Is Reporting Art with “Wrong Values” a Virtue? 56. Dinner-Table Special: How Do Japan's Eccentrics Celebrate the Lunar New Year? 57. What Language Does Leung Man-tao Think In? | Lunar New Year Q&A 1 58. Should You Leave Your Comfort Zone? | Lunar New Year Q&A 2 59. What Job Provides Food, Security, and Plenty of Time to Read? | Lunar New Year Q&A 3 60. Academic Fraud with Chinese Characteristics: Does Acting Need a PhD? 61. He Was the Work of Art: Looking Back at “Kaiser” Karl Lagerfeld's Life in Fashion 62. Roma's Oscar Campaign Creates a New Model for Film Distribution 63. Where Did Beijing's Public Toilets Come From? The Late-Qing Toilet Revolution 64. Emotional Blackmail by Chinese Parents: Once Trapped, Escape Is Hard 65. The Predicament of Chinese Film and TV Audiences: The Fall of a “Resource Website” 66. Why Was International Women's Day Created? The Word “Women” Deserves Pride 67. Air Disasters and Fear of Flying: Does Stricter Security Make You Feel Safer? 68. School Lunch Is a Serious Form of Education 69. The New Zealand Mosque Attacks: Is Madness Truly Beyond Understanding? 70. The Coolest Engineer: Queen's Rock Legend in Bohemian Rhapsody 71. The Homeless Master: Can Homelessness Be a Chosen Way of Life? 72. Don't Bleach the Classroom White! A Strange Chinese University Habit: Always Demanding the Correct Answer 73. Japan's New Era Name: Native or Imported? 74. Aesthetic Laziness: Time to Take Responsibility for Your “Appearance” 75. Blind Faith in “996”? Entrepreneurs Need a Better Understanding of Marxism 76. “Seeing” a Black Hole: Why Does Its Photograph Matter to the Public? 77. The Notre-Dame Fire: Schadenfreude and Remembrance 78. Why Does the State Fund University Students? The University of Tokyo's Entrance Speech Sparks Debate 79. The Sri Lanka Bombings: The “Teardrop of God” Still Healing 80. Thinking through Spoilers: Free Speech or Moral Wrong? 81. The Peking University Student Suspected of Killing His Mother: Journalism Ethics in the Social-Media Age 82. Leung Man-tao × Xu Zidong: Were May Fourth Youth Better than Young People Today? 83. The Thai King's Coronation: How Should We Regard Another Country's Customs and Rituals? 84. The U.S. College Admissions Scandal: Can Education Make Society Fairer? 85. The Limits of Humor: Where Is the Boundary of a Joke? 86. Chernobyl: How Much of Ourselves Can We See in a Distorted Mirror? 87. The Game of Thrones Finale: Victory and Defeat Were Settled before the Game Ended 88. Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei's Interview and the Campaign to “Support Domestic Brands” 89. On Amateur Science: China's “Folk Scientists” Could Fill an Entire History 90. The Global History of the Humble Banana: When Fruit Shook the World Extra | How Did the Adorable MINI Become a British Icon? 91. Liverpool Wins the Champions League: What Football Has Taught Me 92. Limits on Study in America: How Do Americans View Chinese Students? 93. Leung Man-tao × Xu Yingjin: Applying Philosophical Thought to Current Events 94. Cats and Dogs on the World Stage: Why Do Politicians Keep Pets? 95. Antimicrobial Resistance: Ignorance about Antibiotics Is Leading Us toward Destruction 96. If Venice Dies: With Summer Coming, How Can We Be Responsible Tourists? 97. The Cemetery of Great Minds: Without These “Extraordinary People,” We Would Not Be Here Today 98. Shanghai Begins Waste Sorting: What You Throw Away Is Not Garbage but Traces of Life 99. Does a Picture Prove the Truth? What Keeps You from Knowing the Whole Story? 100. Why Aren't Child Abusers Afraid of Exposure? 101. What Counts as a Sophisticated Lifestyle? “Taste” Ruled by Rankings 102. Leung Man-tao × Flypig: Where Should Our “Digital Legacy” Go? 103. The Lion King: What Are We Doing When We Anthropomorphize? 104. Leung Man-tao × Xu Haofeng: My Short History of Fighting 105. Boris Johnson Takes Office: Has Britain's Trump Arrived? 106. The Richard Liu Sexual-Assault Allegation: What Can We Believe in a Polluted Media Environment? 107. Finding a Different Way to Practice Public Oversight 108. Do You Regret the Suspension of Independent Travel to Taiwan? 109. Leung Man-tao × Li Bingbing: Life Is a Conversation of Self-Reflection 110. Toni Morrison Dies: A Writer Who Belonged to More than Black People and Women 111. Peking University's Admission of a Henan Student: Once Again We Talk about Equality in Education 112. Yao Chen × A-Lang × Leung Man-tao: Women Who Grow Wild Are More Lovable 113. Ma Boyong × Leung Man-tao: The Longest Day in Chang'an Concentrates My Historical Imagination 114. Your Social Circle Defines the Boundary of Your Knowledge of the World 115. I Can't Help Wanting to Talk with You about “Trust” 116. A Miserable Philosopher or a Happy Pig? | Q&A Collection 117. “I Don't Want Your Opinion; I Want Mine”—Hear What Leung Man-tao Says 118. Why Didn't Hua Mulan's Name Reveal That She Was a Woman? 119. Zeng Meihuizi × Leung Man-tao: I Have an Oscar Dream—the More I Say It, the More Real It Feels 120. Cao Dewang's American Factory: A Documentary Cross-Section of Market-Economy Development 121. Liang Jie × Leung Man-tao: Can Economics “Prescribe a Cure” for Every Problem? 122. Was the Jewish People Invented? 123. Xu Bing × Leung Man-tao: Is Everything an Artist “Gets Up To” Worth a Fortune? 124. The Deaths of 39 Migrants: What Drives Human Smuggling in Our Time? 125. Fire Consumes Okinawa's “Forbidden City”: What Has Shuri Castle Endured over a Century? 126. A Picnic, an Exhibition, or Proper Rest? Celebrating Singles' Day According to “Tradition” 127. Thirty Years since the Berlin Wall Fell: The Naivety and Reality of Ode to Joy 128. Reduced to Phone Data, Do We Care about Privacy? | Q&A Collection 129. Facing Plague, What “Miracle Cure” Should We Trust? 130. The Louvre's Great Exhibition: Meet Leonardo, the Curious Boy 131. Why Do We Love Independent Bookstores? 132. A Kind of Violence Carried Out in the Name of Love 133. From Amusing Ourselves to Death to Amusement That Kills? 134. Michelin's Beijing Guide: Who Decides What Tastes Good? 135. Can Employees and Companies Have an Ideal Relationship? 136. Exiled for Forty Years, Milan Kundera Regains Czech Citizenship: Where Is Home? 137. Wang Ruiyun × Leung Man-tao: Why Is It Not Art When I Do It, but Art When He Does? 138. Where Should Personal Faith Come From? 139. What Disappears along with Dialects? 140. Why Does Christmas Make Us Especially Happy? 141. Why Is Environmentalism “Box-Office Poison”? 142. What Exactly Are We Allowed to Joke About? 143. Ma Jiahui × Leung Man-tao: If I Returned to Age Thirty, I Would Tell Myself… 144. What Exactly Happened among the United States, Iran, and Iraq? 145. A Yi × Leung Man-tao: Why Did I Return to the Countryside to Collect “Ghost Stories”? 146. Australia's Bushfires: We Must Not Applaud Ourselves because Others Suffer 147. Russia's Entire Cabinet Resigns—What Will Putin Do? 148. COVID-19: How Should Public Trust Be Managed? 149. What Do Chinese People Truly Revere? 150. Can We Trust “Collective Intelligence” to Manage an Epidemic? 151. What Do Book Collections Have to Do with Divorce? 152. After Lockdown, How Do We Face Discrimination and Fear? 153. Dr. Li Wenliang Dies: What Does It Mean to “Tell the Truth”? 154. Understanding “How Can You Say You Have No Clothes? I Shall Share My Robe” | Eight Minutes Special 155. 1917 Misses Best Picture: What Is the Cost of War? | Eight Minutes Special 156. Beyond Medical Workers, Who Else Should We Care About? | Eight Minutes Special 157. Can We Still Write Poetry after Auschwitz? | Eight Minutes Special 158. Why Does Love Require Imagination? | The Plague 1, Eight Minutes Special 159. Why Do Some People Choose Revelry in the Face of Despair? | The Plague 2 160. Where Does a Hero's Motivation Come From? | The Plague 3 161. How Can We Find Inner Peace? | The Plague 4 162. Will We Eventually Forget All of This? | The Plague 5 163. Why Can't I Say “I'm on My Period”? | Eight Minutes Special 164. How Is an Island of Quarantine Constructed? | Death in Venice 1 165. Why Can Forbidden Love Become a Literary Classic? | Death in Venice 2 166. What Is the Heroism of the Weak? | Death in Venice 3 167. Should We Read More Books or Read Fewer More Closely? | Death in Venice 4 168. What Is Nietzsche's “Dionysian Spirit”? | Death in Venice 5 169. Why Can Literature Feel Provocative? | Death in Venice 6 170. What Is German Romanticism? | Death in Venice 7 171. What Price Will People Pay for Beauty? | Death in Venice 8 172. What Are Great Journalists Doing? | Eight Minutes Special 173. Why Couldn't the United States Match China in Modeling COVID-19? | Eight Minutes Special 174. What Distinguishes a Cult, a Heresy, and a New Religion? | Eight Minutes Special 175. How Does Wealth Change after an Epidemic? | Eight Minutes Special 176. How Should We View China's Draft Rules on Permanent Residence for Foreigners? | Eight Minutes Special 177. Can Reality Keep Pace with Our Ideals? | Eight Minutes Special 178. How Did One Cell Change Medical History? | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 1 179. What Is the Price of Free Healthcare? | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2 180. What Worldview Develops When Your Environment Cannot Be Trusted? | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 3 181. What Is the Difference between an Important Person and a Great Person? | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4 182. What Is the Purpose of a Program about Books? | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 5 183. Why Did the U.S. Stock-Market Crash Trigger Circuit Breakers? | Blindness 1, Special Finale 184. How Do You Survive Quarantine in a Psychiatric Hospital? | Blindness 2 Eight Minutes Extra | Looking Back on Thirty Days of Specials—Thank You for Being Here 185. What Is Passive-Aggressive Speech, and What Does It Mean to Speak Properly? 186. What Kind of Cultural Confidence Should a Country Have? 187. Why Can't People Escape Double Standards? 188. Jia Xingjia × Leung Man-tao: Is Northeast China Experiencing a Renaissance? 189. How Should I Understand the Harm Others Do to “Me”? 190. What Virtues Should Chinese People Have? 191. What Music Can Change a Person's Life? 192. Is Democracy Still a Good Thing during a Pandemic? 193. Why Do Conspiracy Theories Multiply as a Crisis Worsens? 194. What Is at Issue When Wuhan Diary Is Published Overseas? 195. What Is the Basic Attitude Required for Discussing a Problem? 196. Is One World: Together at Home the Live Aid of Our Time? 197. What Is a Truly Socialist Country? 198. How Did Anti-Intellectualism Rise? 199. What Is Knowledge? Extra | April 23 World Book Day Livestream Replay 200. What Kind of Freedom Does the “Rising Generation” Possess? 201. Why Did German Electronic Music Become a Global Pioneer? 202. The Bao Yuming Case: What Makes a Sexual Act Unjust? 203. Are There Better Angels in Human Nature? 204. What Defines Populism? 205. What Does Civilization Mean? 206. How Should We Understand Macao? 207. Fang Kecheng × Leung Man-tao: Does Everyone Love Livestreams? 208. What Is Happening to America? 209. Why Can't America Control Its Proliferation of Guns? 210. Should Art Pursue Eternity? 211. Can People See Their Own Sins Clearly? 212. Zhang Lixian × Leung Man-tao: What Is Reading Actually Good For? 213. From Zhong Meimei to Miao Kexin: What Is “Positive Energy”? 214. The Bad Kids: How Does a Child's Morality Develop? 215. Seventy Years after the Korean War Began, How Should War Be Remembered? 216. Lu Nei × Leung Man-tao: Were the 1990s a Golden Age? 217. What Is the Standard of a Junzi? 218. Is the Gaokao a Tool for Changing One's Fate? 219. Can Film Music Transcend the Film? 220. Ge Zhaoguang × Leung Man-tao: Does Globalization Mean Global Integration? 221. Why Do Child Prodigies Always Appear in Clusters? 222. Extra | Angelica Zhang Yu × Leung Man-tao: What Is Luxury? 223. After the Film Industry's Winter, Can We Return to Cinemas? 224. How Did Far-Right Thought Sweep through All of Japanese Society Seventy-Five Years Ago? 225. After the “New Iron Curtain Speech,” Where Are China-U.S. Relations Heading? 226. Wu Hung × Leung Man-tao: Where Should a History of Chinese Art Begin? 227. How Should We Judge the Perfect-Score Gaokao Essay Living in a Tree? 228. Living in the Age of ▇▇▇, Why Do People Still Draw Lines for Themselves? 229. Liu Shaohua × Leung Man-tao: How Should Anthropologists Observe the World? 230. What Is the Responsibility of Intellectuals? 231. Are We Ready to Live with COVID-19? 232. Mukbang Videos Removed: How Can We Reduce Food Waste? 233. What Political Systems Exist among Western Democracies? 234. How Do Buddhists Understand Precepts? | Season 2 Finale 235. Extra | Li Wei × Leung Man-tao: How Do Artists Imagine 2020? 236. Extra | Nie Huihua × Leung Man-tao: What Are Bitcoin, Digital Currency, and “Internal Circulation”? 237. Extra | Do Cutting-Edge Technology and Craft Tradition Conflict? 238. Extra | Sylvia Chang × Leung Man-tao: What Does Sound Let Us Imagine? 239. Extra | Jiang Song × Leung Man-tao: Museums Are Booming—but How Should We Look? 240. Sixty Years since the Beatles Formed: How Do You Get Along with Your Best Partners? | Season 3 Premiere 241. Who Are BTS, and Why Are They So Popular? 242. The Danke Apartment Crisis: How Much Room Is Left for Young Renters? 243. What Keeps a Company Alive through Storms? 244. How Should We Understand Maturity in Life? 245. Why Is a Novelist like a Spy? Remembering the Great John le Carré 246. How Can We Speak for Women Who Have Been Abused? Beginning with Tan Weiwei's Xiao Juan 247. Wutiaoren × Leung Man-tao: Why Are We Fascinated by the Absurd? 248. Looking Back at 2020, How Can We Recover the Highest Tranquility of Mind? 249. Welcoming 2021: May You Have the Courage to Be Free and Become Who You Wish to Be 250. The Pinduoduo Incident: Who Decides How Long We Work Each Day? 251. The Capitol Riot: What Is Happening to America Again? 252. What Makes a Normal Reader—and a Good Editor? Remembering Shen Changwen 253. Why Is Fake News the “Perpetual Winner”? 254. The Surrogacy Debate: Kinship, Morality, Poverty, Abandonment—How Much Must We Consider? 255. How Hard Is It to Go Home This Lunar New Year? 256. Why Do People Today Need Healing? 257. Why Is Uruguay Worth Discussing? 258. What Is Masculinity? 259. How Should We View the Shutdown of the YYeTs Subtitle Group? 260. What Is a Remarkable Hope? 261. How Should We Understand Myanmar? 262. Myanmar Revisited: Why Is It So Difficult for Outsiders to Understand? 263. Fashion and Taste: How Did Flaunting Wealth Evolve? 264. Ng Man-tat Dies: Why Do We Miss Hong Kong Cinema? 265. What Makes Nomadland So Rare? 266. How Should We Interact with Guide Dogs? 267. What Happens to Animals after a Nuclear Power Plant Is Abandoned? 268. Ma Jiahui Guest Hosts: How Many Urban Legends Haunt Movie Theaters? 269. Ma Jiahui Guest Hosts: My Six Principles for Reading Program Hiatus Notice 270. Why Are We Afraid? 271. Where Are the Limits of Consumer Boycotts? 272. The Story of Douban's One-Star Book Campaign: What Three Things Matter Most in Reasoned Argument? 273. How Have I “Slacked Off” for Thirty Years? 274. Why Does the Internet Industry Speak in Jargon? 275. Liang Jianzhang × Leung Man-tao: Are We Approaching a Matriarchal Society? 276. Did Attack on Titan Botch Its Ending? 277. Li Juan × Leung Man-tao: What Is Pure Writing? 278. What Are “Self-Disciplined Reading” and “Externally Disciplined Reading”? 279. How Should We View Japan's Nuclear Wastewater Release? 280. Where Did China's Compensatory Holiday Scheduling Come From? 281. Why Did India Fail to Control the Pandemic under Strongman Politics? 282. Feng Guochuan × Leung Man-tao: Has Architecture Made People More Indifferent? 283. From the Concealed Leopard to Chengdu No. 49 Middle School: How Do We Seek Truth? 284. Why Is Impermanence So Hard to Accept? 285. What Is the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict About? 286. Yui Aragaki Marries: How Does a Celebrity Become the “Nation's Wife”? 287. How Did the Baiyin Ultramarathon Tragedy Happen? 288. Do Young People Today Have the Freedom to “Lie Flat”? 289. Where Are the Elephants Going? 290. What Was Education Like Eighty Years Ago? Remembering Zhang Kaiyuan and He Zhaowu 291. How Can We Address the Issue without Attacking the Person? 292. Yin Fang × Leung Man-tao: How Can Young People Express Themselves through Art? 293. Why Did I Become Obsessed with Football? 294. Why Is The Father Worth Watching? 295. Why Did Reading Become a Movement? 296. What Does It Mean to “Seek Benevolence and Attain It”? 297. Yu Hua × Leung Man-tao: What Is a Contemporary Writer's Responsibility? 298. Xu Zidong × Leung Man-tao: Why Is Football as Fascinating as Life? 299. The Lin Shengbin Controversy: What Does It Mean for a Public Persona to Collapse? 300. How Should We Approach LGBTQ People and Issues? 301. America's “Unexpected” Withdrawal from Afghanistan: What Happened over Twenty Years? 302. Christian Boltanski Dies: How Does a Person Establish an Identity? 303. The Henan Floods: How Can We Save Ourselves and Help Others? 304. How Can We Understand and Empathize with This Disaster? 305. Why Are We Becoming More Easily Agitated? 306. Which Other Teams at the Olympics Deserve Attention? 307. The Olympics Revisited: How Can Sport Relieve Everyday Exhaustion? 308. Remembering Yu Ying-shih: What Is a True Scholar? 309. The Alibaba Employee Sexual-Assault Case: How Much Longer Can We Tolerate This Stench? 310. How Should We Understand “Living with the Virus”? 311. How Will the Taliban's Return in Afghanistan Affect Us? 312. Why Is the United States Called a War Machine? 313. Remembering Hu Xudong: What Was Beijing's “Bohemian Age”? 314. Liu Zichao × Leung Man-tao: What Kind of World Will This Generation of Travel Writers Face? 315. Eight Minutes Returns: What Is the Hardest Part of Moving House? 316. Why Did They “Wrap the Arc de Triomphe”? 317. What Caused Power Rationing in Northeast China? 318. How Should We Understand Our Relationship with Cats and Dogs? 319. Why Are Women Mocked for Becoming a Certain Kind of “Socialite”? 320. How Is the Nobel Prize in Literature Decided? 321. What Does It Mean That Knowledge Is Produced through “Use”? 322. What Did Squid Game and Netflix Get Right? 323. How Should We Watch Opera? 324. The Li Yundi Incident: What Matters Most in Morality? 325. Ann Hui × Leung Man-tao: These Days, I Have Far Fewer Blind Desires 326. What Is the Ground Tone of a Novel? | Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize 1: The Southern Goods Store 327. Remembering Li Zehou: What Is a Culture of Aesthetic Feeling? 328. Has Avant-Garde Literature Declined? | Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize 2: The Detective Novelist's Book of the Future 329. Liushen Leilei × Leung Man-tao: What Is the “Sense of the Margins” in Jin Yong's World? 330. How Should We Treat Animals? 331. Why Do Stories of Ordinary People Rising Attract More Attention? 332. How Should We View Dividing People into Social Classes? 333. Chun Doo-hwan Dies: How Should We Judge His Era? 334. How Do We Understand Humiliation, Exoticism, and Typification? 335. What Must We Understand before Reading Writers from Northeast China? | Literary Prize 3: Immortal Illness 336. How Do We Establish the Self and Find Stability? | Literary Prize 4: In the Name of Birds and Beasts 337. What Is Clean Chinese Prose? | Literary Prize 5: The Submarine at Night 338. On Saying Goodbye | Season 3 Finale Extra | Comedians' Chat × Leung Man-tao: What's the Ultimate in Refined Living? 340. The Beatles: Get Back—How Do We Remember Youth through History? | Season 4 Premiere 341. How Will Omicron Affect Us? 342. Commemoration, Influence, and Being Shaped: How Do We Move through a Lifetime? 343. The Liu Xuezhou Tragedy: Why Do Online Abusers Believe They Represent Justice? 344. Sun Haipeng × Leung Man-tao: Why Is I Am What I Am a High Point of Chinese Animation? 345. The Xiaohuamei Case in Xuzhou: Why Is Human Trafficking So Difficult to Establish? 346. Yang Zhao × Leung Man-tao: How Should Workers Distinguish a Career from a Vocation? 347. What Is the Ukraine Crisis, and How Will It Affect Us? 348. What Love-Hate History Do Russia and NATO Share? 349. How Are Ukraine and Russia Entangled by History? 350. Zhou Yijun × Leung Man-tao: Does “Truth” Exist in War? 351. What Does It Mean for a Country to Be “Finlandized”? 352. How Should We Understand Ukraine's “Neo-Nazi” Problem? 353. What Is the Left, and What Is the Right? 354. China Eastern Flight MU5735: What Are Journalism Ethics and “Feasting on Human Blood”? 355. How Do We Face Pandemic Fatigue? 356. The Best Picture Oscar and Its Gossip: Why Do We Need Healing? 357. Liu Waitong × Leung Man-tao: Does Our Age Still Need Poetry? 358. On Shanghai 359. What Is the Truth of the “Bucha Incident” in Ukraine? 360. Shanghai Revisited: What Should Concern Us? 361. Fifty Years after The Godfather: How Does a Film Become a Classic? 362. What Is the Difference between Independence and Neutrality? 363. How Should We Prepare for a Possible Lockdown? 364. How Do We Understand Imperfection in Life? 365. What Is the Meaning of Failure? 366. How Has the Pandemic Affected Students? 367. The Philippines' Magical Political Story: What Is a Political Dynasty? 368. What Is Rule by Elites? 369. How Will Sweden and Finland's Applications to Join NATO Affect the World Order? 370. Everything Everywhere All at Once: What Is Moral Nihilism? 371. How Should Aesthetic Quality Appear in Textbooks? 372. How Should We View Vietnam's Abolition of Household Registration? 373. Britain's Four-Day Workweek Trial: How Will the Pandemic Change Work? 374. Li Jihong × Leung Man-tao: What Did the Beat Generation Long For? 375. The Tangshan Attack: What Can We Do in the Face of Gender Violence? 376. Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant Sinks: How Important Was It to Popular Culture? 377. What Is a “Complete” Life? 378. Lawyer Zhang Sizhi Dies: What Makes a True Lawyer? 379. What Did I Experience on This Day Twenty-Five Years Ago? 380. Lin Yao × Leung Man-tao: Will the Abortion-Rights Battle Divide America Further? 381. Chen Zhiwu × Leung Man-tao: Can History Be Quantified? 382. How Should We View the Assassination of Shinzo Abe? 383. As Hollywood Drifts Away from Us, How Will It Develop? 384. What Is Hong Kong's Grassroots Spirit? 385. The Wu Aping Incident: What Does Buddhist “Deliverance of the Dead” Mean? 386. “Second Uncle” Goes Viral—but What Is Mental Exhaustion? 387. How Should We Relate to “Second Uncle”? 388. Nancy Pelosi Visits Taiwan: What Questions Deserve Attention? 389. As Extreme Weather Arrives, What Is the Gaia Hypothesis? 390. How Should We Understand Our Relationship with the World? 391. Shi Zhan × Zhang Xingang × Leung Man-tao: Has Deglobalization Really Arrived? 392. What Moral Dilemmas Arise When Discussing Public Issues? Temporary Break + Tomorrow Night's Livestream Preview 393. Xu Haofeng × Leung Man-tao: Why Do We Miss Wuxia? 394. Suzhou's “Kimono Incident”: How Are Clothing, Identity, and Ideology Related? 395. How Should We Judge Gorbachev's Achievements and Failures? 396. Zhou Yijun × Luo Yijun × Leung Man-tao: We Cannot Stand Aside from the World 397. Queen Elizabeth II Dies: How Should We Remember and View Her Life? 398. How Should We Face “Malicious” Criticism? 399. When Will It Finally End? 400. Liu Hailong × Leung Man-tao: Where Are News and Media Heading? 401. What Does It Mean to Help Others Sincerely? An Apology 402. Where Is the Boundary between Law and Scholarship? 403. What Is Elite Arrogance? 404. Wu Xiaobo × Leung Man-tao: How Can We Build a Sheltered Life? A Song of the Dove for Everyone 405. How Should We Understand Godard and His Artistic Achievement? 406. What Is Happening in the Russia-Ukraine War Now? 407. What Does It Mean to Preserve Dignity in Life? 408. How Do We Understand the Many Lives of Rural China Today? | Literary Prize 1: Wang Nenghao 409. What Is the Difference between Suffering and Self-Indulgence? 410. Where Is the South? | Literary Prize 2: The History of Tides 411. What Is Obviously Abnormal? 412. “Airport Man” Mehran Nasseri Dies: What Is It Like to Live in an Airport for Twenty Years? 413. What Are Iran's Young People Fighting For? 414. What Does It Mean to Find Joy amid Hardship? 415. What Should We Do Next? Temporary Break—Details Next Week 416. Are Restrictions Really about to Ease? 417. How Can We Get a Good Night's Sleep? 418. Zhai Zhiyong × Leung Man-tao: How Can Ordinary People Develop Legal Reasoning? 419. Shen Yuan × Leung Man-tao: Are Some Forms of Music Higher than Others? 420. How Did Messi Become the Football King of Our Age? 421. Why Is First Love Both Corny and Compelling? 422. Liu Qing × Yang Zhao × Leung Man-tao: Why Read Capital Today? 423. Li Zishu × Leung Man-tao: What Are Malaysian Chinese Writers Writing? 424. How Do We Face What Cannot Be Faced? 425. 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